Show SERVICE EX-SERVICE SERVICE MEN f MAKE MARKED PROGRESS Veterans Veterans' Bureau Has Aided Aid Aid- Aided ed Hun Hundreds reds to Start in Gainful Occupations I By THOMAS F F. F STOKES I United d Press Staff Correspondent V WASHINGTON ASHINGTON Jan 20 H Hundreds Hundred of ot men disabled In the service of their country during the tho World war are be beIng being being be- be ing put on on their feet teet again and makIng making making mak mak- ing great progress In gainful occupation occupations occupations pation through th the aid ald of ot the United I States Ve Veterans Veterans' erans' erans bureau Several outstanding cases are are r cited b by the bureau which has Interviewed personally more than disabled veterans Henry Bitter of Dubuque la Ia totally blind and having artificial arms has discovered a formula for tor a proprietary I pharmaceutical preparation which he has has' patented and is now making on a II large scale Prior to his enlistment Bitter was was' a Dewey Cox training in poultry at atthe atthe atthe the United States Veterans' Veterans bureau tr training center at Waynesville Waynes ille- ille N. N C. C has Just sold the largest rooster roost r ever Feen seen peen south of the MaSon-Dixon MaSon line for tor Three men who have been rehabilitated rehabilitated as blacksmiths by the United States veterans veterans' Veterans Veterans' bureau are now re receiving receiving receiving re- re an average salary of ot a a month The The bur bureau u has hIlS rehabilitated twentysix twe- twe six ty men as acetylene welders welders' who welders who are now receiving on an average of t 45 a a. month SOLDIER OVERLOOKED A soldier without n a. a co country ha has ha been Jeen discovered by the up clean squad of ot the United States Veterans' Veterans bureau bu- bu reau- reau operating at Grand Rapids Mich He is C C. H H. Pearl who enlisted in the Am Arne can ambulance service In ill tho the thoI F French Fench army in 1917 r While Pearl Peart- I was was Iri hi the hospital as a result of ot a shrapnel wound his organization was transferred od t f the United States army and he be was overlooked o He lie was unable unable unable un un- able to show by official records that he served In the United States army during the war and he could not prove that he was actually in the service of any country when ho he was released from tha French hospital The bureau bu- bu burea bureau bu bu- reau rea reau u Is working on his caseS case S' S SERVICE ViCE MEN EN PREFERRED PREFERRED D. D The tal agency dealing frith Ith veteran relief work the United St States Veterans' Veterans bureau is now manned almost entirely by service ex-service men This Thill situation has been long contemplated b by the government and has hab been advocated b by all the veteran OJ T The veterans have contended that their would receive more sympathetic consideration by ily y one who tad rad b been eri In the service They felt that on one who was was familiar with the conditions existing during the war I would be acquainted with the service procedure and therefore better able to toi I bender i render a f fair lr decision in their case President Harding took this into consideration when he appointed sin an officer who h had d. d seen service overseas over over- seas Colonel Charles R. R Forbes to tobe toe torie rie be e director of or the Vet Veterans Veterans' rans' rans bureau i i Colonel 1 Forbes in turn has made It a a. a point paint to fill practically all the responsible re- re positions with ex ex cx men R officers are per percent percent cent service ex-service men The Tho managers of or the fourteen tourte n re regional regional regional re- re gional districts are arc without exception cx service ex-service men These men are in indirect in indirect direct t charge charse of or th the activities of ot the theY Y Veterans Veterans' bureau relating to compensation Cation hospitalization and and- vocational fr training framing In theIr thel respective districts The decentralization of ot the Veterans' Veterans bureau has hag given th these se m men n added responsibilities The Sweet bill provides for tor a num- num bt her of ot r not to exceed There are now such in existence six Eighty per cent of the managers erK are service ex-service men f SAILOR HAS ACTIVE MIND A former sailor c characterized as hiving having one of the twenty five most l minds ls In the United States s s In training as s an engineer an engineer In the University of Washington in the unit of ot the United States Veterans' Veterans bureau bureau bu bu- reau there for tor the training of disabled soldiers Zits Ills name Is John Michael Nolan and his brilliance nag has startled the university university authorities He made u a perfect score score- of 12 points In the army intelligence alpha r I test lest In thirteen minutes The rhe best previous record was points In seventeen seventeen sev sev- enteen minutes held by a Tale Yale university unIversity university uni unI- protes professor lOr while an officer In Inthe Inthe inthe the army Nolan also scored per percent percent percent cent in the navy intelligence test He Ho passed perfectly in one minute and ten seconds an information test of sixty questions I LEGION PLANS CENSUS I The most important meeting of ot the American Legion ever held between national conventions will be called in I Indianapolis January 2 29 and 21 to arrange for tor a census of ot every ex- ex ex 1 I service man and woman in the coun- coun j try The plan that national commander commander com com- mander Hanford MacNider l will present to delegates calls caUs for tor person personal l inter inter- j views by legion canvassers of ot all alt I vet vet- vetI I erans C C. Rv Ro Forbes director of the I United States Veterans Veterans' ns' ns bureau will willbe willbe be the personal representative of ot President Harding and Judge K II H. Landis will be one of the speakers i j I The national c executive committee of ot Ithe i ithe the American Legion Alon auxiliary ry an anor or of ot women relatives of or i legion members will met meet concurrently concur- concur I The census will be known as asa I Ia a service and compensation campaign campaign cam cam- and andIs Is modeled after atter the Iowa plan successfully use used In that hat state when Mac MacNIder was commander thereAfter there After Arter approval by the convention the cn census 15 will be undertaken nat at o once ce j r |